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A 39-year-old man in the UK was sentenced to more than a year in prison on Tuesday for sending unsolicited images of his genitals to a 15-year-old girl and a woman in her 60s, according to a press release from Essex Police. The teen girl was left overwhelmed and crying" according to the Guardian.

Steven Moffat-the former Doctor Who showrunner and head writer whose association with the series spanned 2005 to 2017-is stepping back into the TARDIS. According a social media post by the BBC, he'll be making an explosive return," penning an episode for Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the Fifteenth Doctor.

From the fastball special to the resurrection powers of the Five on Krakoa, the concept of mutant powers combining in unexpected ways has fascinated X-Men stories for generations. Now, X-Men 97 is going back to the 90s for a continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, but it's bringing with it a modern approach to...Read more...

What does it mean to poke" someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous feature was largely invisible for many years, but now Facebook is reporting a 13x spike in poking in the last month.Read more...

When The Acolyte hits Disney+ in June, it'll be the first time many Star Wars fans discover the High Republic, an era of the franchise set hundreds of years before the movies. Others though have been reading about it for years and they'll surely be anxious to see if any of their favorite characters pop up.Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Google Maps enjoyed a decisive victory against iMessage in yesterday's tournament. Today, we have the two best video apps duking it out.Read more...

It's been several months since that first Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga trailer gave us a juicy glimpse of George Miller's prequel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Charlize Theron's badass character introduced in Mad Max: Fury Road. It is now time, then, to witness a new trailer!

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has been gradually losing its vision as layers of water molecules have frozen onto its mirrors. That's bad news for a mission tasked with observing the dark universe using super-sensitive cameras, but the team behind the telescope has come up with a plan to keep...Read more...

After weeks of teasing, Lego has finally revealed its huge collaboration with Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate the legendary roleplaying game's 50th anniversary-and it's huge in many ways, from piece count to price.Read more...

Star Wars' next live-action project is one of its most ambitious yet-a series that will bring a previously unexplored era to the small screen, and with it darkness. The Acolyte, a story that will foretell the downfall of the Jedi Order from its highest highs and examine the rise of the Dark Side, is nearly here, and...Read more...

Google announced it's building a new large language model that will give health and fitness tips on Tuesday, part of a broader push across the company to develop AI health algorithms and robot doctor tools.Read more...

I'm suffering from an acute case of solar eclipse anxiety; maybe you can relate. The promise of this historic celestial spectacle, an event I've been looking forward to for years, has begun to fill me with dread. Let me explain.

Benedict Wong teases his return to the MCU. Karen Gillain has hopes for the future of Jumanji. Get a look at the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Sand Land. Plus, Warner Bros. wants to make Dr. Seuss strike again with a new Cat in the Hat movie. Spoilers get!

Samsung smartphones are known for their big, beautiful AMOLED displays, so I was curious when I saw its Windows laptops get similar treatment. The 16-inch display on Samsung's latest Galaxy Book 4 Pro 360 is one of the sharpest, most responsive laptop displays I've pawed at in a while. In the Windows world, you...Read more...

Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in...Read more...

After death, we all run the risk of being forgotten. Such was the case of Garzapelta muelleri, an ancient reptile that lived over 200 million years ago and even went unidentified for 30 years after its bony remains were found.Read more...

Earlier this month, the Defense Department released a long-awaited report designed to address renewed public interest in unidentified flying objects. UFOs-or, UAP, as they've recently been rebranded-have been back in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to a few true believers who think the government has been hiding...Read more...

Michael Dell, the CEO of the technology company that bears his surname, has long been an advocate of remote work and not so long ago called it the future of work." But it seems that even Dell (the company), can't help but follow the trend among technology companies suddenly convinced that in-office work is the best...Read more...

Movie posters appearing to show an upcoming remake of the children's dinosaur movie The Land Before Time (1988) have elicited strong emotions on social media recently. But no matter if you think a remake is a bad idea or a good idea, the movie isn't happening. At least not in the foreseeable future.Read more...

While multi-billion dollar disasters like FTX would lead a reasonable person to believe that the cryptocurrency industry is dead or dying, the unfortunate truth is that it's doing just fine. Not only has Bitcoin's market price been on a familiar rollercoaster ride lately, but droves of crypto believers have, in recent...Read more...

Pedro Pascal is currently living his absolute best life; after rising to fame on Game of Thrones and Narcos, he's now an A-list star of screens big (Fantastic Four) and small (The Mandalorian, The Last of Us). But things weren't always golden for the affable star, who recently spoke about his long, long road to fame.Read more...

The only thing more impressive than watching Paul Atreides ride a sandworm in Dune: Part Two is watching director Denis Villeneuve explain how he made it happen. Villeneuve knew the scene was arguably the most memorable and crucial scene in the second half of his adaptation, and he put a mind-numbing amount of time...Read more...

Space tourism has unlocked a new brand of luxury travel, one which promises expensive meals and designer flight suits with views of Earth's curvature as a backdrop. A Florida-based startup is offering six passengers the chance to ride on board its balloon-propelled capsule while chowing down on what it claims to be...Read more...

Our brains are in rougher shape than we might think. New research from the World Health Organization and others estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, or epilepsy, just to name a few. Collectively, these neurological problems are now...Read more...

AstraZeneca, the UK-based maker of popular inhalers like Symbicort and Airsupra, announced Monday it plans to cap costs for patients using its inhalers in the U.S. at $35 per month starting June 1. The inhalers treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which combined affect roughly 41 million Americans...Read more...

X-Men is a comics franchise defined by its evolution. There are few others like it that can be so defined by multiple foundational eras of fandom-shaping periods, from its classics, to Chris Claremont's reign, to New X-Men, and even all the way to the gates of Krakoa. But for mutantkind, the 90s will almost always be...Read more...

If you're burnt out over generative AI hype, you're not alone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-4, his company's latest and greatest AI model, actually kinda sucks in an interview with Lex Fridman published on Monday. In fact, Altman is hoping GPT-5 can live up to all the hype.Read more...

Godzilla fans are riding high at the moment, between Godzilla Minus One's recent Oscar triumph and the imminent release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And you can count directors Takashi Yamakazi and Adam Wingard among those happy fans; as this conversation between the pair clearly shows, these guys both really...Read more...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health examined dozens of government employees and their families who experienced Havana Syndrome" and found no evidence of significant brain injury or other biomarkers that would explain their ailments. Despite the findings, the report authors say that the symptoms felt by...Read more...

The first episode of The Don Lemon Show premiered on Monday morning, showcasing a fiery interview with Elon Musk. The interview ultimately killed Don Lemon's deal with X, in which the former CNN host promised to create exclusive content for the platform.Read more...

Social media was flooded Monday with claims that King Charles III has died, with some people pointing to a video of a flag at Buckingham Palace being flown at half-mast. Others passed around an official announcement made to look like the king passed away on Sunday. But they're all fake. The king is alive, as far as we...Read more...

While Bill Pullman's Independence Day character will likely always be the gold standard for how the President of the United States should react if hostile aliens invade, a certain real-life former POTUS seems a probable close second. It's sci-fi guyBarack Obama, of course-a fan of author Liu Cixin, though he turned...Read more...

A CT scan of Stanley's viral Quencher cup has confirmed what the company has been saying all along: There's only lead at the bottom of the cup. The lead is covered by a stainless steel cover, which Stanley says makes it inaccessible to customers." In the end, though, lead exposure might come down to a matter of luck.Read more...

It's Day 18 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we're saying goodbye to one of our biggest contestants! WhatsApp defeated Instagram in yesterday's tournament. Today, we have the world's biggest maps app going up against the bain of Android users' existence.Read more...

Stand aside, Mickey Mouse slasher movie (Steamboat Willie Mickey version only): the team behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey-the most high-profile film in the current wave of horror movies based on beloved characters in the public domain-just leveled up. There's an entire cinematic universe coming.Read more...

It's been four years since the U.S. Space Force unveiled its all-too-familiar logo, establishing itself as the youngest military branch, but with clear signs of an identity issue. If you've ever wondered about the other logo designs that were considered, the Space Force clearly doesn't want you to know what made them...Read more...

It's official. The next live-action Star Wars that'll hit your eyeballs is The Acolyte, and it's coming sooner than you may think. Disney just revealed a teaser poster for the show with an intriguing tagline, lightsaber, and the release date of June 4. Oh, and the trailer is coming Tuesday.Read more...

There are both pluses and minuses to a movie debuting on Netflix, but one plus is that basically any and everyone will give it a shot. And since so many people did just that with the first Rebel Moon, you have to assume many will want to see where the story ends. Now you've got a new look.Read more...

Sony's PlayStation VR 2 is barely a year old, and it appears it's not catching on like thePS5 when it launched in 2020. There are so many PSVR2 headsets unsold that Sony put the production of new units on hold, according to a Bloomberg report Monday.

A large portion of southwestern Iceland that includes world-famous attractions like the Blue Lagoon has been dealing with volcanic eruptions since late 2023. The eruptions forced the evacuation of the fishing town of Grindavik and have been captured in striking images showing large plumes of smoke and burbling molten...Read more...

A few years ago, after decades of legal squabbling, the companies behind the legendary mecha anime Macross and its western adaptation as Robotech put aside long-standing differences in order to allow the two franchises to co-exist outside of Japan. Now, that deal is finally seeing some movement for fans... although...Read more...

Congressman Jeff Jackson's latest TikTok video starts simply: I apologize." Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ultimately ban TikTok from the US. For many, it turned Jackson into enemy number one. The North Carolina Democrat spent the last year amassing 2.3 million followers on TikTok,...Read more...

So you need a budget laptop? Good, because nowadays you can find a perfectly serviceable or downright solid laptop that will cost you a relative pittance considering the gross prices of other, top-of-the-line machines. We've already offered you the best laptops you can buy at any price point, but there are far more...Read more...

Leigh Whannell has started shooting Wolf Man. Kim Kardashian goes behind the scenes for American Horror Story: Delicate. Plus, what's to come after Michonne and Rick's reunion on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Spoilers, away!

Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items of interest. Every once in a while, however, paleontologists stumble upon some particularly bizarre specimens and scenes.

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Apple is in talks to build Google Gemini into the iPhone's next operating system, powering Siri and other AI-enabled features, according to reports from Bloomberg on Monday. The iPhone maker reportedly held discussions with multiple AI companies about powering iOS 18 with a competitor's technology, including OpenAI.Read more...

Meet JBL's newest ANC headphones, the Live 770NC, which were announced at CES 2024. Priced at $200, these fall in the midrange category. Unfortunately, they don't act like midrange headphones on various fronts. They look and feel much cheaper, and the ANC underperforms, too. You might still like these if all you care...Read more...

What's your favorite way to listen to music? Maybe you prefer a quiet room with some headphones or listening on vinyl. One thing is for sure, you don't want to hear some compressed MP3 on your phone, right? Apple, Amazon, and Tidal offer lossless audio," claiming users can hear the exact same thing" an artist...Read more...